The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-06
News of the Week.

Thirty.four deaths from the heat wei
ported at the Coroner office in New YofS
Monday.
The public debt statement for July, issu
on Monday, shows q reduction of "a ,844, son
Total cash in the Treasury, $456, 30, 1861.
George Barnes, colored, charged with a
homicide, was lynehed by colored mob at
Greenwood, Mississippi, last Friday night.
The yellow fever record at Key West, Flor
ida, up to last Sunday was 1913 cases, As
deaths, 30 discharged as cured, and So in the
hospital.
Manuel Barriant and wife, of Matamoras,
Mexico, recently celebrated the S0th anniver-
sary of their wedding. The husband is l02
and the wife 96.
Captain John Ericsson, inventor of the
famous turret ironclad Monitor celebrated
his S4th birthday at his residence in New
York on Sunday.
During thunder storm at Hadensvile,
Kentucky last Friday afternoon, three color
ed persons took shelter from thunder storm
under tree, and all were killed by lightning.
Chas. H. Reed, one of Guiteau's counsel,
tried to commit suicide by jumping from a fer
ry boat in New York harbor last Saturday
He was injured on the head by the boats pad
die wheel.
John Taylor, President of the Mormon
Church, died last week. tits said Joseph Smith
Jr., President of the Mormon Church, at La
mont, Illinois, will go to Salt Lake City and
present his claims to the Presidency of the
Mormon Church in Utah.
The programme of the Presidents Western
trip is understood to be at present as follows:
He will probably leave Washington about the
end of September and go direct to St. Louis:
thence to Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis,
Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade and Trans.
portation, at a special meeting on Saturday,
appointed committee, composed equally of
Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate
with a similar committee from the Chamber
of Commerce in inviting President Cleveland
to take Cincinnati in his route when he visits
the West.
A tornado passed over David City, Nebrasl
ka, last Friday evening, demolishing half the
buildings in the place, including the Union
Pacific and Burlington and Missouri depots,
a brick school-house, two churches, several
stores and many dwellings. One man was
killed. The loss on property is estimated at
5000, 600.
| A section of Cincinnati known as ''Slop
Town." including 25 buildings, only five of
them of brick, and several stables, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday afternoon, $50 peo-
pie were burned out, and the loss is estimated
at $1,000 Fifty COWS were burned in the
stables. Five firemen and a policeman were
Frustrated by the heat.
A telegram from Easton, Pa, says that
about twenty houses in Northampton county,
| Penna., and eight in Warren county, New
Jersey, were damaged by lightning on Sunday.
Many cellars in Easton were flooded, and the
damage to streets and pavements by washouts
is estimated at Sl2, 900.
The heaviest rain known by the "oldest
inhabitant' of Wheeling, West Virginia, fell
there Monday afternoon, the fall being over
two inches in three quarters of an hour.
Many cellars and some first floors were flood
ed There was vivid lightning. The temper.
AZURE, which had been 80 in the shade, was
reduced to 81 by the storm.
| At Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Saturday, Thomas
| G. Evans, of Nanticoke, delegate to the
Republican Convention last fall was sentenc-
ed by Judge Woodward to pay 500 fine, the
cost of the prosecution, and 80 days in Jail,
for attempting to sell the votes of seventy del
egates for ten dollars apiece to Arnold Der.
tells, one of the candidates for sheriff
A fire started last Friday morning in the
bakery of Christian Heffen, in the basement
of tenement on Archer avenue, Chicago.
A two-year- old child persisted from suffocation
in the building, and sixteen other persons
were injured by the smoke and flames, one OF
whom, Mrs. Nelson Trugo, mother of the
dead infant, expired soon after. Two or three
others are in critical condition.
Two mail coaches running between Austin
and Fredericksburg, Texas, were stopped by
a highwayman last Friday night, near Dnpp-
ing Springs. The mail pouches were riAed Of
their contents, except the registered letters,
which escaped the notice of the robber The
highwayman stopped the incoming driver
near where he was to meet the outgoing coach
He kept him bound and gagged until the 9th.
er driver came mp, when he also stopped him
After despoiling the mail pouches, the rob-
Der mounted his horse and galloped off.
A telegram from Sarnia, 0pterin ears that